OBIT: Alexander CALLAHAN, 1904, formerly of Cambria County, PA
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Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa.
Friday, April 29, 1904
Volume XXXVIII, Number 18
Killed in Arizona
James Callahan, superintendent of the South Fork Coal Mining
Company's operations has received word of the death of his son,
Alexander, at Bisbee, Arizona, as the result of injuries received in an
accident which is believed to have occurred in a mine. On Sunday
morning, Mr. Callahan received a telegram from another son, John C.,
who is in Arizona, saying that Alexander had been very badly injured
and in the evening there came another dispatch stating that he was
dead. Mr. Callahan at once telegraphed back directions to do what was
deemed best in the matter of burial and forward as soon as possible a
letter giving details.
Alexander Callahan was twenty-nine years old and was well known among
the miners of Cambria County, he having been employed at Ehrenfeld and
Gallitzin. Three years ago he went to Arizona, first finding
employment in a warehouse but later going into one of the Greene
Consolidated Copper Company mines at Bisbee.
Alexander Callahan was one of a family of eight brothers and three
sisters. One brother as noted is in Arizona, the remaining six living
at South Fork. Of the three sisters, one is Sister Bonaventure of the
Order of St. Joseph of Columbus, O., and another is married and lives
at Ehrenfeld and the third is at South Fork.